Chinese school denies cyber-attack on Google

A Chinese school linked to cyber-attacks on Google denied any involvement, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.

Li Zixiang from the Lanxiang Vocational School in Shandong Province, said "investigations ...found no trace the attacks originated from our school."

The New York Times reported last Thursday that the cyber-attacks aimed at Google and dozens of other firms were reportedly traced to computers at two Chinese schools. Citing unidentified anonymous sources, the newspaper said trails led to Shanghai Jiaotong University and the Lanxiang Vocational School, which was created with military backing and trains some of its computer scientists.

But the school denied any relationship with the military and rejected links made in the New York Times report to a specific computer science class taught by a Ukrainian professor.